Contingency and Normativity: In Dialogue with Richard Rorty: The Challenges of Richard Rorty: 329 - Brossura

Rosa Maria Calcattera

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ISBN 10: 9004387978 ISBN 13: 9789004387973

Casa editrice: Brill | Rodopi, 2019

Riassunto

Richard Rorty’s “neo-pragmatism” launched a powerful challenge to entrenched philosophical certainties of modernity, articulating a powerful picture of normativity as a distinctive activity of human beings. This “contingentism,” with its emphasis on indeterminacy, ambiguity, uncertainty, and chance, depicts normativity as a practical human possibility rather than a metaphysical bottleneck which we must overcome at the cost of repudiating the concrete ways we grant epistemic and ethical meaning to our activities. The book is a critical survey of Rorty’s philosophy, in light of contemporary theoretical debates around language, truth, justification, and naturalism, as well as his own resourceful attempts to renew philosophy from within by using the conceptual tools and argumentative techniques of both analytic philosophy and pragmatism.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Rosa M. Calcaterra, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at University Roma Tre. She edited various international collections and is the Author of numerous essays or chapters of books and volumes among which Pragmatismo: i valori dellesperienza. Letture di Peirce, James e Mead (2003); Ideias concretas: Percursos na filosofia de John Dewey (2015).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Brill | Rodopi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9004387978
• ISBN 13: 9789004387973
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 150
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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